These sexy veterans are back, and they're wearing nothing but their battle scars.

Just when our hearts and loins thought they've had enough, photographer Michael Stokes of Los Angeles is back behind the lens shooting amputees in a steamy sequel to his wounded veteran series, and he guarantees: "Yes, they are nude."

But in general, Stokes said, "the story is all the same. [The wounds] are all from improvised explosive devices. The difference in the story is, did you step on it, or were you in the Humvee?"

For Iraq war veteran Bobby Henline, who is the first of Stokes' models to suffer from extensive facial injuries as well as amputation, it was the latter.

Henline was serving in his fourth tour of Iraq when an IED detonated under their Humvee. Of the five people that were in the car that day, only he survived.

He suffered burns to 35% of his body, and spent the next few years in and out of the hospital getting skin grafts and other procedures.

But posing in Stokes' series was about more than becoming a centerfold. For him, it was about normalizing the image of burn victims, or other veterans with visible wounds to their faces.

"When people see me at first, they're looking at me, they see the wounds," Henline told InsideEdition.com, "but when you get to know somebody or they're photographed like this in a beautiful way, it helps people see beyond that."

In his healing process, he took up stand-up comedy, and eventually pursued a career in that path.

"That's how I dealt with everything — the pain, and letting my family know I was okay — I kind of joked around," he said. "I didn't think it was going to work, but I realized it was good therapy for me to get it out."